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The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

This book illuminates the pages of the book of Hebrews. Andrew Murray's sermons and books have stood as spiritual standards for over a hundred years.

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Ebe Dolfcst <strong>of</strong> Hll<br />

Himself, in whose fellowship He finds His life and delight,<br />

through whom He can reveal Himself, with whom He shares the<br />

worship <strong>of</strong> all His creatures. And because God is love, this<br />

Son <strong>of</strong> God becomes the Son <strong>of</strong> Man, and the Son <strong>of</strong> Man,<br />

having been perfected for evermore, enters through death and<br />

resurrection into all the glory that belonged to the Son <strong>of</strong> God.<br />

And now this Son <strong>of</strong> God is to us the revelation, the bearer, <strong>of</strong><br />

the love <strong>of</strong> the divine Being. In Him the love <strong>of</strong> God dwells<br />

in us ;<br />

in Him we enter and rest in it. When God speaks to<br />

us in this His Son, it is the infinite love imparting itself to us,<br />

becoming the inward life <strong>of</strong> our life.<br />

And if we ask how this can be done, our answer is the<br />

second great lesson taught us by the truth that Christ is the<br />

Son <strong>of</strong> God ! It was by being begotten <strong>of</strong> God, by a divine<br />

birth, that Christ became the Son. In eternity<br />

it was a birth<br />

;<br />

in the resurrection it was a birth from the dead. And so it is<br />

only by a divine birth that the Son, that the love <strong>of</strong> God, can<br />

enter and possess us. It is<br />

by an eternal generation<br />

that the<br />

Son is God. In eternity there is no past ;<br />

what God is and<br />

does is all in the infinite power <strong>of</strong> an ever-present now. And<br />

so it is in the power <strong>of</strong> that eternal generation that the Father<br />

begetteth us in His Son (i John v. 1-18), and begetteth His<br />

Son in us ;<br />

that the Father speaks the eternal Word to us and<br />

in us. <strong>The</strong> Word <strong>of</strong> God is the Son, coming from the heart <strong>of</strong><br />

the Father, spoken into our hearts, and dwelling there. <strong>The</strong><br />

Son is the Love <strong>of</strong> God as the<br />

; Son, so the Love <strong>of</strong> God is<br />

begotten within us, making us, by a new birth, partakers<br />

own nature and blessedness.<br />

<strong>of</strong> its<br />

If we would learn the lesson <strong>of</strong> the Epistle, and experience<br />

in our Christian life the full<br />

power <strong>of</strong> the everlasting redemp<br />

tion, we must above all learn to know Jesus better. <strong>The</strong> general

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